Raw Data for Campaign Finance and Lobbying Activity

In addition to presenting California campaign finance and lobbying activity on the user-friendly CAL-ACCESS website, the Secretary of State provides the raw data to allow people with technical expertise to create their own databases.

The raw data is presented in tab-delimited text files from corresponding tables in the CAL-ACCESS database. Users can uncompress and extract the data with standard software such as PKZIP, WinZip, or MacZip. The Secretary of State does not provide technical support to users who want to download and analyze CAL-ACCESS data in this advanced way. However, the Secretary of State offers guides to the CAL-ACCESS data structure and fields.